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Many years of close collaboration with Canadian, American, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and European scientists, and working sabbaticals in France (Ecole Centrale de Lyon as Directeur de Recherche), Italy (Bologna and Ferrara as Visiting Professor), Switzerland (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne as Professeur Invite) and the United States (Boston University as a Visiting Scholar and Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Visiting Scientist) have given him an intimate knowledge of the working relationships between Academia, Industry and Government agencies in various countries. As Program Director in the Chemistry Division of the U.S. National Science Foundation (1998–2001, Arlington, VA), he co-managed and recommended funding for many of America’s most brilliant researchers. He has been a prolific editor/co-editor and contributor (chapters) to numerous books and journals (most recent co-edited book to be published in June 2020 by Springer Nature on the topic of the Utilization of RF Power to Heating and Energy applications). He has published (or in press) nearly 490 papers in a variety of prestigious journals. His work has been cited nearly 56260 times with an h-factor index = 101 (Google Scholar database). In 1997, he was the recipient with two other colleagues (Dr. Boris Levy of Boston University and Dr. Mel Sahyun of the 3M Company) of the 1997 Best Paper Award from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. An Industry Consultant, he has had a long and fruitful relationship with the 3M Company in the United States and was the co-founder and Vice-President of a company established (with David Ollis of North Carolina State University) to develop a commercial technology for environmental pollution abatement. A skilled organizer, efficient, professional and analytical, he has chaired numerous Organizing Committees, Review Panels and Appeals Boards at the Provincial, National and International (U.S. National Science Foundation & U.S. Department of Energy) levels. He was a member of a Task Force of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1990–1991 to examine the possible chemical use of Solar Furnaces. Following his early retirement in June 1998, he was named University Research Professor at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) until 2004 and in 2000 was made Professor Emeritus, whilst winning the Italian Competition Rientro dei Cervelli that led him to lecture to undergraduates (Laureandi) and graduate students (Dottorandi) at the Universita di Pavia from 2002 to 2005 as a Professore a Contratto, he has remained a Visiting Professor in the PhotoGreen Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry at Pavia ever since. He has also lectured at the Tokyo University of Science (July/August 2008, Noda Campus) and briefly also at the Universita di Milano (April 2015) where he is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the SmartMatLab (Chemistry Department, 2015-….). He was a member of the Major Resources Support Committee of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2007–2010) to evaluate and adjudicate proposals of thematic and physical resources. He has served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies, Applied Catalysis B (2009–2010), the journal Molecules (2015–2016) and most recently as the Managing Editor of an issue in the journal Catalysis Today (2018–2019). Fluently trilingual, written and spoken, and an effective communicator, both horizontally and vertically, he has also been a frequent Keynote Address Speaker and Invited Plenary Lecturer. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc, Division of Materials Science) and from 2012 to 2014 served as a Member of its Scientific Committee. On March 1, 2014, he was elected Head of the Materials Science Division and was re-elected on March 1, 2017 to serve until 2020. During the last 6 years he was also a Member of the General Board of the Academy. His service to the Academy continues as an officer of the Materials Science Division’s scientific committee for the next 3 years (2020–2023)..1961 in Copenhagen Denmark and received master’s degree in mathematics with a minor in physics from the University of Copenhagen in 1985 and a Phd from Princeton University in 1989. After postdoctoral positions at University of MichiganAU. Her research focuses on vegetated marine ecosystemsAhsan Kareem , Dist. FASCE, NAE, is the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame. He served as the President of the American Association of Wind Engineering (AAWE) and International Association of Wind Engineering (IAWE). The focus of his work is on quantifying load effects caused by various natural hazards on structures and to develop innovative strategies to manage and mitigate their effects. This includes characterization and formulation of dynamic load effects due to wind, waves and earthquakes on tall buildings, long-span bridges, offshore structures and energy related structures that is carried out via fundamental analytical computational methods, and experiments at laboratory, and full-scale. He directs NatHaz Group (NatHaz Modeling Laboratory) which focuses on developments in cyberspace virtual collaborative research platforms, e.g., virtual organizations, IoT, edge computing, crowdsourcing, computational intelligence, living laboratories, sensing and actuation, citizen sensing, web-enabled analysis and design, scientific machine learning (SciML) and cloud-based computing to address challenges posed by natural hazards to the built environment. He has received several medals for his distinguished contributions in a number of areas including the von Karman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Engineering, the Japan Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the European Academy of Sciences.Alain-Sol Sznitman has been at ETH Zurich since 1991, when he was appointed full Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He has been director of the FIM (Mathematics Research Institute) from October 1995 until September 1999. Professor Sznitman was born on December 13, 1955 in Paris. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Following his studies he became Attaché de Recherche at C.N.R.S. in October 1979, and worked at the Laboratoire de Probabilités de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie. In 1983 he received the Doctorat d'Etat, became Chargé de Recherche and then spent two years at the Courant Institute in New York, returning to Paris in September 1985. In September 1987 he was appointed associate professor at the Courant Institute, and in September 1990 full professor. In 1989 Professor Sznitman received the Alfred P. Sloane Fellowship, and in 1991 the Rollo Davidson Prize. In 1992 he presented a Plenary Lecture at the First European Congress of Mathematics in Paris. In July 1997 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In August 1998 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, and in September 1999 he received the Line and Michel Loève Prize. In 2008 he became member of the Academia Europaea, in 2012 member of the Inaugural Class of AMS Fellows, and in 2014 member of the IMU Circle. In 2022 he was the recipent of the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics and became member of the European Academy of Sciences. Professor Sznitman's research concerns probability theory, with a special focus on problems connected with physics, in particular problems of random media. He is the author of several scientific publications and member of several scientific committees. 🏆 2022 Blaise Pascal Medallist in Mathematics In recognition for his contributions to Probability Theory. He is one of the main players who have transformed probability theory into one of the most active and important branches of mainstream mathematics — both directly via their own work, but also by creating a sense of community. In this last decade, Sznitman has again crafted a deep subject. With the “interlacement” questions, one looks at questions of the connectivity properties of “the complement of a random structure” rather that of the random structure itself. This turned out to be a deep topic, with relations to many other currently active areas of probability theory (maxima of random fields), where again, the ideas that he developed turn out to be central.Aldo R. Boccacciniis Professor of Materials Science (Biomaterials) and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College London, UK, and RWTH Aachen University (Germany). He has an Engineering degree from Instituto Balseiro, Argentina (1987), and a Doctorate in Engineering Sciences (Dr.-Ing.) from RWTH Aachen University, Germany (1994). He had post-doctoral appointments at University of Birmingham, UK (1994-1996), and at the University of California, San Diego, USA (1996-1997). The research activities of Prof. Boccaccini are in the field of ceramics, glasses and composites for biomedical, functional and/or structural applications with focus on bioactive materials, scaffolds for tissue engineering, biofabrication and antibacterial coatings. He has been a visiting professor at different universities around the world and has given more than 150 presentations at international conferences (as keynote, invited and plenary speaker). Boccaccini has published more than 1000 scientific papers and 25 book chapters. He has co-edited 8 booksHis work has been cited more than 69,000 times (h-index = 114, Scopus®, h-index = 133, Google Scholar®) and he was included in the “Highly Cited Researchers” lists in 2014 and 2018 (Clarivate Analytics). He is listed also as one of the most cited researchers in the world according to the latest edition of the Stanford List of Highly Cited Researchers published in 2023 (Version 6). He appears in the top 50 list in the subject “Materials”. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Materials Letters for 14 years (2010-2023). Boccaccini is a Fellow of four major materials science/technology societies, namely Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK), American Ceramic Society, European Ceramic Society and Society of Glass Technology. He has received multiple awards and honors, including the Materials Prize of the German Materials Society (2015). Boccaccini is also an elected member of the World Academy of Ceramics, the National Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Germany (acatech) and fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurAsc). He was conferred the degree of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Boccaccini currently serves as president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). He was member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) since 2015, serving as ESB vice-president (2020-2023). Since 2022 he has been a member of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS). Recently (2023) he was elected Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science.Alessandro Reali (born in 1977) is Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Pavia (since 2016). He is currently the Rector’s Delegate for International Research (2019-2025) and the Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (2018-2024), as well as a member of the Regional Forum for Research & Innovation of Regione Lombardia (2023-2025). He is specialized in different engineering fields, such as numerical simulation, structural and materials mechanics, biomechanics. He has been the principal investigator of several national and international research projects, including a prestigious ERC grant of the European Research Council. For his research achievements he received numerous honors and awards, and was appointed, among others, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Knight Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Clarivate/ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Ambassador of the Technical University of Munich - TUM, ECCOMAS Euler medalist, IACM Fellows awardee, Fischer Fellow (TUM Institute for Advanced Study), Finzi awardee (Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere), IACM Argyris awardee, ECCOMAS Zienkiewicz awardee, AIMETA Junior awardee. More information can be found at: www.unipv.it/alereali .Anna Proust has been full professor of inorganic chemistry since 2000 at Université Pierre et Marie-Curie (UPMC-Paris 06-France) and then Sorbonne Université. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1992 under the supervision of Professor Dr. P. Gouzerh. After a post-doctoral stay at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) with Professor Dr. A. Müller, she returned to UPMC as Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor. She was junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, 2007-2011) and director of the doctoral school of molecular chemistry. She has been vice-chair then chair of the Coordination Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society, deputy-director and then director of the Parisian Institute of Molecular Chemistry-IPCM. In 2020, she received the State Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. Anna Proust is an expert in the chemistry of polyoxometalates (POMs). These nanometric molecular metal oxides are endowed with outstanding structural diversity and remarkable redox properties. Combining the properties of molecules with those of extended oxides, they can act as electronic mediators or electron reservoirs. Anna Proust’s research focuses on organometallic oxides, transition metal-substituted POMs, in relation to molecular magnetism or catalysis, and on the covalent functionalization and post-functionalization of POMs for their applications in molecular electronics and solar energy conversion. Having spent several years studying and functionalizing POMs (i.e. forming organic-inorganic hybrids by introducing nitrogen, silyl, phosphonyl, or stannyl groups), Anna Proust has recently turned her attention to their use as modular building blocks for developing functional molecular materials. She aims to use them as charge storage nodes, for example in devices for molecular electronics, or as electronic relays in photo- or electro-assisted reduction processes involving small molecules such as H⁺, CO₂, and O₂. A common theme in all these studies is the understanding of the parameters that govern electron transfer/transport and the shaping of POMs, such as their organization on electrodes, given that POMs are charged, non-sublimable molecules.Annalisa Buffa is a professor of Mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 2016 and, prior to this, she has been the director and a research director of the Instituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie informatiche of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei, foreign member of the Académie des Sciences, and member of Academia Europaea, Since 2023, she is Associate Vice President for postgraduate education at EPFL. Annalisa Buffa is a leading expert in the numerical analysis of partial differential equations. Her interests span from geometric design, computational mechanics, and computational electromagnetics to approximation theory, and functional analysis for PDEs. She received an ERC Starting grant in 2008, and an ERC Advanced grant in 2016, she is a recipient of the Collatz prize from the ICIAM (2015) and she is the 2023 Sonia Kovalevsky lecturer. She has been a plenary speaker at several venues, including the ECCOMAS conference in 2022, AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications in 2018, the International Congress of Mathematicians (section 15, 2014), the ICIAM in 2015, the GAMM conference and the FoCM conferences in 2014. Annalisa Buffa is a highly cited researcher, according to ISI (2019).Anne-Marie is Director of Research, Exceptional Class at the CNRS (the highest grade of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination in Toulouse (LCC), of which she is also Deputy Director (DUA) and Head of the “Dendrimers and Heterochemistry” team. She has spent almost her entire scientific career in Toulouse, including 2 theses. She did a post doc after each of her theses, the first at the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFPEN) near Paris, the other in Germany, where she obtained an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. Her entire career has been devoted to the chemistry of phosphorus, in different aspects, such as coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, but especially phosphorus macromolecules, such as macrocycles and above all, dendrimers. She is co-author of 508 publications, 55 book chapters, editor of 2 books on dendrimers, she has an h index of 76 (over 18,000 WOS citations). She has received numerous awards, including very recently the nomination as "Chevallier de la Légion d'Honneur" (the highest civilian award in France), the Grand Prix Achille Le Bel from the Société Chimique de France (SCF) and the Victor Grignard – Georg Wittig Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).Born in 1957, Marco Bettinelli received his doctoral degree in Chemistry cum laude in 1981 from the University of Parma, Italy. He has been post-doc research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London (UK), Assistant Professor at the University of Padova (1983-1992) and Associate Professor at the University of Salerno (1992-1993). In 1993 he moved to the University of Verona, Italy, where he has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Biotechnology until retirement in June 2021. Marco Bettinelli has published more than 550 papers in the fields of Chemistry and Optical Spectroscopy of inorganic materials, and according to Scopus his h-index is currently 73. He has been a Visiting Professor for signicant periods in many universities and research institutions (among them Université de Caen, France, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Kyoto University, Japan, Boston College, USA, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Nanjing Tech, China, National University of Singapore, Singapore) and invited speaker or organizer in many international conferences. His scientific interests deal with numerous aspects of luminescent materials, and in particular with the synthesis, characterisation and spectroscopic properties (absorption and luminescence) of crystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous systems containing rare earth or transition metal ions.Chair of School of Materials Science and Engineering of Suzhou University of Science and TechnologyChemistryChemistry DivisionChinaComputational and Information SciencesComputational and Information Sciences DivisionComputational and Information Sciences DivisionCoventryDAFNE and ESRF. In particularDiran Apelian is Distinguished Professor of MSE at the University of California, Irvine, Director of the Advanced Casting Research Center. He is also Provost Emeritus and Founding Director of the Metal Processing Institute at WPI, Worcester, Mass. He received his B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from Drexel University in 1968 and his doctorate in materials science and engineering from MIT in 1972. Apelian is a Fellow of TMS, ASM, and APMI, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the European Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He is past president of TMS, and the ASM Educational Foundation. With his colleagues and students, he has founded 4 companies: Materials Strategies, Ascend Elements, Melt Cognition, and Solvus Ventures/Solvus Global.DivisionDr. Zhong Lin Wang is the Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Director, and Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr.Wang pioneered the nanogenerators field for distributed energy, self-powered sensors and large-scale blue energy. He coined the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for the third generation semiconductors. Dr. Wang has received the Global Energy Prize (2023), The Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019), Diels-Planck lecture award (2019), ENI award in Energy Frontiers (2018), The James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from American Physical Society (2014), and MRS Medal from Materials Research Soci. (2011). Dr. Wang was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of European Academy of Sciences, member of European Academy of Engineering, foreign member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology, academician of Academia of Sinica, International fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Wang is the founding editor and chief editor of an international journal Nano Energy.Dr. Khalil Amine is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and the leader of the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory, where he is responsible for directing the research and development of advanced materials and battery systems for HEV, PHEV, EV, grid, satellite, military, and medical applications. Dr. Amine is also the Co-director of the Clean energy research center and US-German initiative on interface. He serves as a member of the US National Academy of inventors and committee member of the U.S. National Research Consul at US Academy of Sciences on battery related technologies. He was until recently an adjunct professor at Stanford University and hold a joint appointment as Professor at the university of Chicago and Fellow of Northwestern university/Argonne Institute of science and Engineering. Among his many awards, Dr. Amine is 2019 recipient of the mega global energy prize, a 2003 recipient of Scientific America’s Top Worldwide 50 Researcher Award, a 2009 recipient of the US Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, 2013 DOE Vehicle technologies office award and is the six-time recipient of the R&D 100 Award which is considered as the Oscar of technology and innovation. In addition, he was awarded the ECS battery technology and battery research awards, the international battery association award and NAATBat lifetime achievement award. Dr. Amine holds 207 patents and patent applications and has 743 publications with google h-index of 159. From 1998-2021, Dr. Amine was the most cited scientist in the world in the field of battery technology. He serves as the executive director and president of IMLB. He is also the chairmen of the international automotive lithium battery association, ECS fellow, Fellow of the international association of advanced materials, and associate editor of the journal of Nano-Energy.Dr. Salwan Al-Ani is a professor of solid state physics and materials science. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics - Brunel University U. K (1984), Master’s degree (M.Phil.) in Theoretical Physics- Surrey University U.K (1981) and B.Sc. in Physics, Baghdad University - Iraq (1977).Dr. Tierui Zhang is a full Professor in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Director of Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, CAS. He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1998, and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2003 from Jilin University in China. After that, he did postdoctoral study in Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces with Prof. Markus Antonietti and Dr. Charl Faul (2003-2004), University of Alberta with Prof. Hicham Fenniri (2004-2005), University of Arkansas with Prof. Z. Ryan Tian (2005-2007) and University of California-Riverside with Prof. Yadong Yin and Prof. Yushan Yan (2007-2009), respectively. His research activity focuses on catalyst nanomaterials for energy conversion such as photocatalytic solar fuels and value-added chemicals. He has published more than 380 peer reviewed SCI journal articles in international famous journals such as Nat. Catal. , Nat. Commun. , Adv. Mater. , Angew. Chem. and J. Am. Chem. Soc. These publications have earned him to date over 51000 citations with H-index 123. He was named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2018-2024 List by Clarivate Analytics. He was granted 60 national invention patents in China. Dr. Zhang is the associate editor of Science Bulletin , Industrial Chemistry & Materials , Nano Research Energy and Transactions of Tianjin University , and also serves as an editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals including Advanced Energy Materials , Advanced Science , Chemical Science , Small Methods , Small Structures , Scientific Reports, ChemPhysChem, Materials Chemistry Frontier , Solar RRL , Carbon Energy , Innovation and SmartMat . He is the recipient of a number of awards including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship, “Outstanding Young Scholars” of the National Science Fund. He was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2017 and a fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS) in 2023. More information can be found from his homepage http://zhanglab.ipc.ac.cn . His ORCID No.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7948-9413Earth and Environmental SciencesEarth and Environmental Sciences DivisionEarth and Environmental Sciences DivisionEngineering DivisionFCTFellow of Chinese Academy of SciencesFranceFrançois Golse is currently a professor of mathematics at École polytechnique (Paris). His research interests are partial differential equations and mathematical physics, especially kinetic models and their connections to fluid mechanics. His more recent works include the application of ideas coming from optimal transport to quantum dynamics, for instance to the case of large particle systems in the mean-field and semiclassical regimes. Besides the 1993 Peccot Lectures at Collège de France and the 2010 Harold Grad Lecture at the 27 th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, his main addresses include a plenary lecture at the 2004 European Congress of Mathematics in Stockholm (Hydrodynamic limits), and an invited lecture at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid (The periodic Lorentz gas in the Boltzmann-Grad limit).Gerhard A. Holzapfel is Professor of Biomechanics and Head of the Institute of Biomechanics at Graz University of Technology (TUG), Austria, since 2007. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, and Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Until 2013 he was Professor of Biomechanics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, for 9 years (7 years as an Adjunct Professor). After his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in Graz he received an Erwin-Schrödinger Scholarship for foreign countries to be a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (1993-95). He achieved his Habilitation at TU Vienna in 1996 and received a START-Award in 1997, which is the most prestigious research award in Austria for young scientists. In the following years (1998-2004) he was the Head of a research group on "Computational Biomechanics" at TUG. Among several awards and honors in the past years he is listed in "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014" (Thomas Reuters), he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2011 from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his lifetime achievements, was awarded the 2021 William Prager Medal and the 2021 Warner T. Koiter Medal and he received an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France in 2024. Professor Holzapfel’s research includes experimental and computational biomechanics and mechanobiology with an emphasis on soft biological tissues, the cardiovascular system including blood vessels in health and disease, therapeutic interventions such as balloon angioplasty and stent implantation, polarized light and second-harmonic imaging microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging and medical image processing, nonlinear continuum mechanics, constitutive (multi-scale) modeling of solids at finite strains such as cross-linked actin networks, growth and remodeling, nonlinear finite element methods, fracture and material failure. His research has been supported by TUG, Austrian Science Fund, Austrian Academy of Sciences, State of Styria, Österreichische Nationalbank (Jubiläumsfonds), Austrian Exchange Service, KTH, Swedish Research Council, National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Royal Society, Carnegie Trust, European Commission and the private industry. Professor Holzapfel has authored a graduate textbook entitled "Nonlinear Solid Mechanics. A Continuum Approach for Engineering" (John Wiley & Sons), and co-edited seven books. He contributed chapters to 25+ other books, and published 300 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the International Journal "Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology" (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg). Professor Holzapfel can be reached at Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Stremayrgasse 16/2, 8010 Graz, Austria, e-mail: holzapfel@TUGraz.atGill Reid is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Southampton in the UK and the current President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022-24). She has strong and long-standing interests in education and in actively encouraging engagement of young people with science and chemistry. Her research focuses on developing new coordination chemistry across the s-, p-, d- and f-block ions, including tailored precursors for semiconductor thin film deposition for various device applications, through both chemical vapour deposition and electrodeposition, as well as using metal macrocyclic scaffolds with high fluoride affinity towards the development of next generation medical imaging agents, especially using the positron-emitting fluorine-18 isotope. She enjoys collaborations with researchers across various disciplines and with partners in industry. Gill has published extensively, has graduated over 35 PhD students, and has supervised and mentored over 25 postdoctoral researchers. Gill became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012, was elected to fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022 and received an IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering award in 2023.Ginestra Bianconi is a theoretical physicist and a network scientist. She is well known for her work on statistical mechanics of networks including network modelling and critical phenomena on multilayer networks. She is an expert on equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches leading to the formulation of the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks and the discovery of non-equivalence of network ensembles. Recently she is focusing on the interplay between topology and dynamics in higher-order and multilayer networks.GreeceGustau Camps-Valls earned a Ph.D. degree in Physics (2002, summa cum laude) from the Universitat de València, and he is currently Full Professor in Electrical Engineering in the same university, where he lectures time series analysis, signal processing, image processing, AI and machine learning, and advanced remote sensing data processing. He is the Group Leader of the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group, http://isp.uv.es, an interdisciplinary group of 40 resarchers working in the intersection of AI and machine learning for Earth and Climate sciences. He currently coordinates several European projects in these areas, and assists/ed the aerospeace industry (ESA, EUMETSAT, NASA) as consultant and member of Advisory Boards. He has been Visiting Researcher at the Remote Sensing Laboratory (Univ. Trento, Italy) in 2002, the Max Planck Institute (Tübingen, Germany) in 2009 and 2016, and as Invited Professor at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2013, and at MPI (Jena, Germany) in 2018. Prof. Camps-Valls research activities have resulted so far in a total of 250 peer-reviewed international journal papers, 300+ international conference papers, 25 book chapters, and in editing 5 books on remote sensing, image processing and machine learning: “Kernel methods in bioengineering, signal and image processing” (IGI, 2007), “Kernel methods for remote sensing data analysis” (Wiley & Sons, 2009), “Remote Sensing Image Processing” (MC, 2011), “Digital Signal Processing with Kernel Methods” (Wiley & Sons, 2018), and “Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences” (Wiley & Sons, 2021). He has a h-index of 76 in Google Scholar, with more than 27000 citations, from which 16000+ were received in the last 5 years. He was listed as a highly cited researcher in 2011, 2020 and 2021, and Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch identified my activities as Fast Moving Front research as the Essential Science Indicators identified me as the author of the most-cited paper in the area of Engineering in 2011. That was the seminal work about the introduction of kernel methods to the remote sensing and geoscience community. More than 5 papers received more than 1000 citations each, and a paper about information fusion with kernels received the Google Classic paper award. He has published seminal papers in Nature, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS. He is a referee and Program Committee member of many international journals and conferences. He has served on the Program Committees of International Society for Optical Engineers (SPIE) Europe, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), and International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) among others. He was the Technical Program Chair at IEEE IGARSS 2018, València (2400+ attendees), and the General Chair of AISTATS 2022, València. Since 2007 he is member of the Data Fusion technical committee of the IEEE GRSS, and of the MLSP TC of IEEE SPS. He is (or has been) Associate Editor of “IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc.”, “IEEE Sig. Proc. Lett.”, “IEEE Geosc. Rem. Sens. Lett.”, and Guest Editor of “IEEE Jour. Sel. Topics in Sig. Proc.”. He was member of the MTG-IRS Science Team (MIST) of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), since 2019 he is an Invited Professor Fellow of the ESA PhiLab, and since 2021 acts as board member of the European Science Foundation advising ESA, EU and national space agencies. Since 2019 he is an ELLIS Fellow and coordinates the ‘Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences’ research program of ELLIS.eu, and node member in ELISE and AI Doctoral Academy (i-AIDA) for the advancement of AI in Europe. Prof. Camps-Valls is habitual evaluator of project proposals for H2020 programs (ERC, FET), NSF, China Science Foundation, Swiss Science Fundation, etc. Prof. Camps-Valls was included in the prestigious IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program of the IEEE GRSS (2017), elevated to IEEE Fellow in two Societies (Geosciences and Signal Processing, in 2018), and has received two European Research Council (ERC) grants: an ERC Consolidator grant (2015) and an ERC Synergy grant (2019) to advance AI for the Earth and Climate Sciences. 🏅 Blaise Pascal Medal in Earth and Environmental Sciences (2025) Awarded in recognition of Prof. Gustau Camps-Valls’ groundbreaking contributions to Earth and environmental sciences , particularly through the development of hybrid artificial intelligence and causal inference approaches for climate and Earth system modelling. His pioneering integration of machine learning with physical laws has fundamentally transformed the analysis, interpretation, and prediction of complex environmental phenomena. Through his leadership of major international research initiatives and his role in bridging AI, climate science, and Earth observation, Prof. Camps-Valls has enabled a paradigm shift from purely data-driven correlations to scientifically interpretable, causally grounded models. His work continues to shape global research efforts addressing climate change, extreme events, and environmental sustainability.GyllenbergGünther Rupprechter is Professor of Surface and Interface Chemistry at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria). He has been Renowned Overseas Professor of Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Guest Professor at Kasetsart University Bangkok. Rupprechter is Director of Research of the new Austrian Cluster of Excellence “Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (MECS)” of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), including 5 Austrian universities/institutions. He is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Vice-Chair of the Austrian Catalysis Society and Editorial Board Member of “Catalysis Letters” and “Topics in Catalysis”. Research interests of Günther Rupprechter are in heterogeneous catalysis and nanomaterials, particularly in situ (operando) spectroscopy/microscopy of model and technological catalysts, applied to studies of the mechanisms and kinetics of processes relevant for energy and environment: hydrogen as clean fuel, methane reforming, CO 2 and olefin hydrogenation, automotive catalysis, sensing and waste remediation.He earned his B.S. degree from Jilin University in 2000 and his joint Ph. D. degree from Jilin UniversityHiranya Peiris holds the Professorship of Astrophysics (1909) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. After obtaining her undergraduate degree at Cambridge, Professor Peiris completed her PhD at Princeton. She was a Hubble Fellow at Chicago before returning to Cambridge as a STFC Halliday Fellow. She was then appointed to a lectureship (2009) and Professorship (2015) at UCL. She was Director of the Oskar Klein Centre in Stockholm (2016-2022) and Director of the UCL Cosmoparticle Initiative (2016-2023). Professor Peiris conducts interdisciplinary research based on extracting fundamental physics from cosmological data. She has led analyses of cosmological survey data from multiple major international facilities, as well as making major contributions to theoretical cosmology and statistical astronomy. Her work has been recognised by awards such as the IOP Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize (2018), the Max Born Prize of the German Physical Society and the IOP (2021), and the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2021). Her contributions to survey cosmology have been recognised through a share of the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2012) and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2018), both awarded to the WMAP Science Team. She was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2022.Hoang Xuan Phu is a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. His academic journey includes earning a Ph.D. in 1983 and a habilitation in 1987 at the University of Leipzig. A successful scientific cooperation with colleagues at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of the Heidelberg University has been established since 1992, where he became Werner Romberg Distinguished Guest Professor of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences in 2008. His areas of interest include optimization, optimal control, numerical analysis and functional analysis, as well as practical applications such as optimal control of hydropower plants, robotics, inventory problems, etc. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected 2004), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected 2010), TWAS - The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (elected 2013) and Acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering of Germany (elected 2019). He has been a member of the IMU Circle since 2014.Horst Hahn joined the University of Oklahoma as Distinguished Materials Visiting Professor in October 2022 after retiring from his position at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). At KIT, he served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Nanotechnology (INT) since 2004 and continues to be associated with INT as a KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow. Horst earned his Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Berlin in 1982. Following a postdoctoral position at the Universität des Saarlandes, he relocated to the United States and held various positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Rutgers University. Since 1992, he has been a full professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 2012 to 2022, he was the Principal Investigator and head of a research group on nanoglasses at the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanosciences at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and has received Honorary Professorships at the University of Hyderabad in India, as well as Lanzhou University and Xi'an Jiaotong University in China. Additionally, from 2019 to 2022, he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Physics Department. Horst Hahn's research primarily focuses on defects and diffusion in metals and ceramics, nanostructured and amorphous materials, tailored and tunable properties of nanostructures, energy materials, and printed electronics. He has made significant contributions to the field and has authored/coauthored over 550 papers and holds 75 patents on nanomaterials, including materials for electrochemical energy storage and printed electronics. In recognition of his expertise and accomplishments, Horst Hahn has been elected as a Member of the German National Academy Leopoldina, the National Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is also a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. Moreover, he has been honored with the Mehl Award from TMS and the Heyn Denkmünze from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde.I am Professor Chair in Ecology at the University of Padova (since 2020) and Scientific Director of the Chioggia Marine Centre of the University of Padova. I received a Degree in Biology cum laude from the University of Milano (1990) and a Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of Genova (1994). I carried out research at several institutions in Italy, Australia, USA and UK, and served as Researcher (2005-2011) and Associate Professor (2011-2020) at the University of Bologna. I am listed among the Top Italian Scientists, and in 2019 and 2021 I was awarded as Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (category cross-field) and as Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader. I am a Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, and in 2013 I was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship at Stanford University. I am national delegate for the HE partnerships “Biodiversa”, and in 2020-2021 I served as national delegate in the "shadow" Thematic Horizon Europe Programme Committee for Cluster 6 (Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment). I am Specialty Chief Editor in Marine Conservation and Sustainability for Frontiers in Marine Science and serve the editorial Board of Science Advances, Marine Ecology Progress Series and Sustainability. I co-led the eco-engineering workgroup within the global World Harbour Project, and I am/have been (co)PI in several national/European projects on biodiversity conservation and restoration in increasingly urbanized marine environments. I am recognized as one of the forerunners of the new field of marine urban ecology and coastal 'eco-engineering' and I have dedicated my career to make a positive impact in the conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems threatened by escalating marine urbanization and climate related threats. My current research focuses on designing conservation and restoration strategies in increasingly urbanized marine coastal systems, including nature-inclusive solutions for the protection of the coasts, for the regeneration of urban waterfronts, and for a 'blue' design of marine infrastructure. These approaches can support active restoration close to where people live and where the damage to marine ecosystems has been the most severe.In Memory of Professor Emeritus Shlomo Sternberg Professor Emeritus Shlomo Zvi Sternberg, a distinguished mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to geometry, symplectic geometry, and Lie theory, passed away on August 23, 2024, in Israel. A cherished member of the Harvard Department of Mathematics since 1959, Shlomo held the prestigious title of George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics until his retirement in 2017. His legacy is marked by profound intellectual contributions, mentorship, and a lifetime of accolades, including a Guggenheim fellowship and memberships in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. Shlomo's brilliance and guidance profoundly influenced many, including colleagues and students who admired his unwavering support and intellect. His former student, Senior Lecturer Paul Bamberg, remembers him fondly as "the most brilliant person I ever met," highlighting Shlomo's pivotal role in shaping the careers of countless mathematicians. His remarkable achievements and unwavering passion for mathematics will continue to inspire generations to come.Italy. She now lives in ParisIwao Ojima received his B.S. (1968), M.S. (1970), and Ph.D. (1973) degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Sagami Institute of Chemical Research and held a position as Senior Research Fellow until 1983. He joined the faculty at the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook first as Associate Professor (1983), was promoted to Professor (1984), Leading Professor (1991), and then to University Distinguished Professor (1995). He served as the Department Chairman from1997 to 2003. He serves as the founding Director for the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery (ICBⅅ) at Stony Brook from 2003. He also serves as the President of the Stony Brook University Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors from 2015. He was a Visiting Professor at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France (1989), The University of Tokyo, Japan (1996), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (1997), and Université de Paris XI, BIOCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France (1997). His research interests include medicinal chemistry and chemical biology (anticancer agents, tumor-targeted drug delivery, antibacterial agents, antifungal agents, anti-inflammatory/analgesic agents, enzyme inhibitors), catalytic asymmetric synthesis, organic synthesis by means of organometallic reagents and catalysts, peptidomimetics, -lactam chemistry (applications of the -lactam synthon method), and organofluorine chemistry (fluoroamino acids and peptides, fluorotaxoids, medicinal applications). He has published more than 500 papers and reviews in leading journals and more than l00 patents granted (45 US patents), edited 10 books (SciFinder lists >1,000 publications to his credits, Google Scholar indicates h-index of 88, total citation >35,500 by December 2023), and he has given more than 141 Plenary and Invited Lectures in international conferences and symposia by December 2023. He is a recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1994), the E. B. Hershberg Award (for important discovery of medicinally active substances) (2001), the ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry (2013) and the Ernest Guenther Award (in the chemistry of natural products) (2019) from the American Chemical Society, The Chemical Society of Japan Award (for distinguished achievements (1999) from the Chemical Society of Japan, Outstanding Inventor Award (2002) from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. He was inducted into the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame, American Chemical Society (2006). He is an elected Fellow of the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1995), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1997), The New York Academy of Sciences (2000), the American Chemical Society (2010), National Academy of Inventors (2014) and European Academy of Sciences (2020).Jing Li received her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1990 under the guidance of Professor Roald Hoffmann. She joined the chemistry faculty at Rutgers University in 1991 as Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associated Professor in 1996Luis Oro is emeritus professor of Inorganic Chemistry Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza. His main research interests are in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis with a special interest in reaction mechanisms. He has co-authored well over 600 scientific papers being co-author or co-editor of 10 books. He has received numerous national and international awards, including the Enrique Moles National Research Award in chemical sciences, Rey Jaime I Prize for Research, HUMBOLDT Prize, Sacconi Medal, Echegaray Medal or the Lewis Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is member of several international scientific academies including the German and French National Academies of Sciences. In the Spanish scientific administration, he has been General Director of Scientific and Technical Research, General Secretary of the National Research Plan, and more recently a member of the Governing Council of the State Research Agency.Manuel Bibes (Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France, 1976) is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire Albert Fert (CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay) in Palaiseau, France. After a double PhD degree in France and Spain with a thesis on manganite interfaces (ICMAB Barcelona, 2001) he became a CNRS Researcher in 2003. Bibes has pioneered research lines on multiferroics, ferroelectric tunnel junctions and explored novel routes for the electrical control of magnetism, spin-charge interconversion and spin transport in oxide thin film heterostructures and nanostructures. Bibes is the laureate of three ERC grants and a Highly Cited Researcher. He has received several awards including the Descartes-Huygens Prize in 2017, the EuroPhysics Prize in 2022 and the CNRS Silver Medal in 2025. In October 2024, he co-founded the start-up NELLOW that aims to develop and commercialize ultralow computing chips for AI and logic.Mara G. Freire is a Coordinator Researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Freire is the Coordinator of Group 5 - Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials - of CICECO, and Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of the University of Aveiro. She is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and is one of the 17 Chairs of the Content Selection Advisory Board (CSAB) from Scopus. Freire published +300 papers in peer reviewed journals, +30 book chapters and two books, and has +16,000 citations and h-index of 71. She coordinated/participated in 25 R&D projects, among which two European Research Council (ERC) grants and 2 PathFinder projects from the European Innovation Council (EIC). She has filled +15 national/international patents, and is the co-founder of the RYAPURTECH spin-off. In addition to other awards and recognitions, Freire received the ECTP-NETZSCH Young Scientist Award in 2014, was recognized amongst the top 20 “Women in Science” in Portugal in 2016, was recognized as one of the 100 women in Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018, was awarded with the “Vicente de Seabra Medal” in 2018, and received the 2021 Best Researcher Award from the University of Aveiro.Maria Colombo , born in 1989 in Luino, Italy, earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics from the University of Pisa, followed by a PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 2015. After holding positions at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, she joined EPFL Lausanne in 2018, where she currently serves as a Full Professor of Mathematics and directs the Chair of Mathematical Analysis, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. Colombo's research focuses on regularity theory and the analysis of singular solutions in elliptic PDEs, geometric variational problems, transport equations, and incompressible fluid dynamics. Her contributions, which involve collaboration with a diverse network of researchers, have earned her prestigious awards, including the 2023 ICIAM Collatz Prize, the 2022 Peter Lax Award, the 2023 De Giorgi Prize, the 2019 Bartolozzi Prize from the Italian Mathematical Union, and the 2015 Michele Cuozzo Prize for her PhD thesis. Her recent work centers on the study of irregular solutions to fundamental equations in fluid dynamics, such as the Euler, transport, and Navier-Stokes equations within the turbulence framework. In 2022, she constructed nonunique Leray-Hopf solutions of the forced Navier-Stokes equations, utilizing a background solution unstable in self-similar variables. Additionally, she contributed to the construction of wild, nonunique solutions of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations via convex integration methods. Furthermore, she obtained the first partial regularity theorem for the supercritical surface quasi-geostrophic equation, demonstrating that solutions are smooth outside a set of quantified Hausdorff dimension. Her research also includes well-posedness results for the semi-geostrophic and Vlasov-Poisson equations. In the realm of variational problems' regularity, Colombo's work initiated the study of optimal regularity for double-phase functionals, which have seen remarkable advancements. She also explored the structure of singularities in the obstacle problem and minimal surfaces, contributing to the development of the log-epiperimetric inequality.Marine ecologist with a regional focus on the Arctic Ocean. BiodiversityMark AJ Chaplain is currently the Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland. His main area of research is multiscale mathematical modelling of cancer growth and treatment and he has an international reputation in this field, having carried out pioneering work in this area since the late 1980s. He has developed a variety of original and innovative mathematical models for all the main phases of solid tumour growth (avascular, tumour-induced angiogenesis, vascular, invasion), cancer treatment (immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, thermotherapy), gene-regulatory networks associated with cancer (Hes1, p53, NFκB), and most recently has developed a framework to model the metastatic spread of cancers. Throughout his research career he has undertaken collaborative, interdisciplinary re- search with colleagues in biochemistry, developmental biology, cancer biology, and clinical oncology. He has developed highly original and novel mathematical models which have provided several new insights into the mechanisms underlying the growth of cancers and laid the foundation for developing novel potential therapeutic treatment strategies via personalised medicine. In 2008, he was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator (ERC AdG) award, “M5CGS: From Mutations to Metastases: Multiscale Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Growth and Spread”. a 5 year award, from September 2009 - August 2014. His research has been recognised through the award of several prizes over the past 25 years including a Whitehead Prize of The London Mathematical Society, July 2000, being elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, March 2003, the recipient of a Leverhulme Personal Research Fellowship, April 2007 - 2009, the recipient of the Society for Mathematical Biology 2014 and 2023 Lee Segel Prize for the best paper appearing in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology in the previous two years. He has served as the Secretary and Treasurer of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB), January 1998 – September 2002, President, The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), July 2005 – July 2007, and President, Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS), October 2011 – October 2013. He is currently President-elect of the London Mathematical Society and will take up his role as President in November 2025.MaterialsMaterials ScienceMaterials Science DivisionMaterials Science DivisionMathematicsMathematics DivisionMedicine and Life SciencesMedicine and Life Sciences DivisionMeilin Liu currently holds the Hightower Chair and serves as the Regents' Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He earned his BS from the South China University of Technology and his MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, in situ/operando characterization, and multi-scale simulation of thin films, membranes, and electrodes in energy storage and conversion devices. The primary goal is to achieve a rational design of materials and structures with unique functionalities for chemical and energy transformation. Meilin Liu is an elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS, 2011), the Electrochemical Society (ECS, 2012), the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM, 2021), and the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc, 2024). He has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the HTM Outstanding Achievement Award (ECS, 2018), the Charles Hatchett Award (UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 2018), the Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award (Georgia Tech, twice in 2013 and 1999), the Ross Coffin Purdy Award (ACerS, 2010), the Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award (Georgia Tech, 2003), the Sustained Research Award (Sigma Xi, 2003), and the National Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1993). To date, he holds 33 US patents, has published more than 680 refereed articles, and has delivered over 200 plenary, keynote, or invited lectures worldwide. Since 2018, he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and/or Environment and Ecology.N/A | Guest MemberNathalie Wahl is a mathematician, working at the interface of geometric topology and homotopy theory. Born in Belgium, where she obtained her first degree, she moved to Oxford for her PhD and took postdoc positions at Northwerstern University, Aarhus (as a Marie Curie fellow) and the University of Chicago. She move to Copenhagen in 2006, where she has been a professor since 2010. She has obtained a number of grants, including both an ERC starting and consolidator grants. Since 2020 she is the centre leader of the DNRF centre of excellence GeoTop at the mathematics department of Copenhagen University.Nazli Choucri is Professor of Political Science, Senior Faculty at the Center for International Studies (CIS), and Faculty Affiliate at the MIT Institute for Data, Science, and Society (IDSS). She focuses on cyberpolitics and computational social sciences in international relations—exploring emergent dynamics in three overarching “spaces” of 21st century politics, i.e. (i) traditional geo-political arena, (ii) natural environment, and (iii) constructed domain of cyberspace. She examines sources of conflict and threats to security, on the one hand, and strategies for sustainability and global accord, on the other. She is the author and/or editor of twelve books, most recently Cyberpolitics in International Relations (2012) and International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma , with David D. Clark (2019). Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Professor Choucri is the architect and Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), an evolving knowledge system centered on sustainability problems and solution strategies. She created and directs CyberWorld@MIT and the related knowledge and networking system CyberIR@MIT. Both initiatives are rooted in the cyber-inclusive view of international relations introduced by the MIT-Harvard project on Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR), for which she was Principal Investigator. Professor Choucri served as General Editor of the International Political Science Review , and for two terms on the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review . She was on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, also for two terms. She is a founding member of the Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) and is on the Board of the Boston Global Forum.North of AfricaPaul S. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science & engineering at UCLA. He received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemistry from MIT in 1980 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. He was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1986-88 and a visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1988-89. He served as the director of the California NanoSystems Institute and held the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at UCLA from 2009-14. Before coming to UCLA, he was a distinguished professor of chemistry and physics at the Pennsylvania State University, where he began his academic career in 1989. His interdisciplinary research group includes chemists, physicists, biologists, materials scientists, mathematicians, bioengineers, electrical and mechanical engineers, computer scientists, clinicians, and physician scientists. They focus on the ultimate limitsof miniaturization, exploring the atomic-scale chemical, physical, optical, mechanical, electronic, thermal, and spin properties of surfaces, interfaces, supramolecular, and biomolecular assemblies. They develop new techniques to expand the applicability and chemical specificity of scanning probe microscopies. They apply these and other tools to study self- and directed assembly, and molecular and nanoscale devices. They advance nanofabrication down to ever smaller scales and greater chemical specificity to operate and to test functional molecular assemblies, and to connect to the chemical and biological worlds in neuroscience, gene editing, cancer immunotherapy, tissue engineering, cellular agriculture, and the microbiome. He has authored over 500 publications, holds over 40 patents, and has given over 1000 invited, plenary, keynote, and named lectures. He is involved in startups from his and other laboratories in biotechnology, food security, energy, entertainment, and healthcare. Weiss has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991-96), the Scanning Microscopy International Presidential Scholarship (1994), the B. F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award (1994), an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1995-97), the American Chemical Society (ACS) Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (1996), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), a NSF Creativity Award (1997-99), the ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry (2015), the ACS Southern California Section Tolman Medal (2017), the ACS Patterson-Crane Award in Chemical Information (2018), the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award (2019), and the Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2024), among others. He was elected a fellow of the: American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), American Physical Society (2002), American Vacuum Society (2007), ACS (2010), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2016), Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017), Materials Research Society (2019), IEEE (2021), National Academy of Inventors (2023), European Academy of Sciences (2025), and an honorary fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (2010) and Chemical Research Society of India (2020-21). He received Penn State’s University Teaching Award from the Schreyer Honors College (2004), was named a nanofabrication fellow at Penn State (2005), and won the Alpha Chi Sigma Outstanding Professor Award (2007). He was a visiting professor at the University of Washington, Department of Molecular Biotechnology (1996-97) and Kyoto University, Electronic Science & Engineering Department and Venture Business Laboratory (1998 and 2000), and a distinguished visiting professor at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Caltech (2015). He is a visiting scholar at the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (2015-). He held the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) Chaire excellence JacquesBeaulieu (2016-17) and was a Fulbright Specialist for the Czech Republic (2017). Weiss was a member of the U.S. National Committee to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2000-05). He has been the technical co-chair of the Foundations of Nanoscience Meetings and thematic chair of the Spring 2009 and Fall 2018 ACS National Meetings. He was the senior editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters for molecular and organic electronics (2005-07), and was the founding editor-in-chief of ACS Nano (2007-2021). At ACS Nano, he won the Association of American Publishers, Professional Scholarly Publishing PROSE Award for 2008, Best New Journal in Science, Technology, and Medicine, and ISI’s Rising Star Award a record ten times.Pavol Šajgalík is senior research scientist at the Ceramic Department, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences (since 1996). He served ten years as the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovak Republic (2015-2025). Primarily his research focuses on the research and development of oxide and non-oxide high performance ceramics. Main interest of his research is the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties of these materials. He regularly organizes workshops on Engineering Ceramics. He is the president of the Slovak Silicate Society, the member elect of the World Academy of Ceramics and the Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS). He obtained a great number of domestic and international recognitions and awards. In 2015 he was awarded the Slovak State decoration: Order of the Ľudovít Štúr of III. Class. In 2013 he was awarded the Stuijts Award of ECerS and Bridge Building Award of ACerS. He is a fellow of ECerS and ACerS. Between years 2015-2018 he served as the president of European Ceramic Society.PedriniPhDPhysicsPhysics DivisionPlinio Innocenzi is a full professor of Materials Science at the University of Sassari, where he is director of the Materials Science and Nanotechnology Laboratory. He holds a doctor degrre in physics from the University of Padua and was a research associate at Kyoto University in Japan from 1992 to 1996. He has been a visiting professor at Sorbonne University in Paris, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Osaka Prefectural University, and in the academic year 2022-2023 distinguished visiting professor at the United Arab Emirates University. He has served from 2010 to 2018 as a Science and Technology Councellor at the Embassy of Italy in Beijing. He has published over 250 scientific papers, 10 books and has 12 patents to his credit. His research interest is focused on the chemical synthesis of nanomaterials and their applications in photonics and medicine.PorsgrunnPortugalProf. Alfio Quarteroni is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is internationally recognised as a pioneer in numerical analysis, scientific computing, and the mathematical modelling of complex systems, with high-impact applications in engineering, cardiovascular medicine, and environmental sciences. 🏅 In 2024, Prof. Quarteroni was awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics, the highest scientific distinction of the European Academy of Sciences in this field, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to applied mathematics and computational modelling. Author of over 400 scientific publications and more than 25 monographs, Prof. Quarteroni has led groundbreaking projects in computational mathematics, including the numerical modelling of the human heart and the design of high-performance sailing vessels, such as the Alinghi yacht, which won the America's Cup. He is a Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Academia Europaea, and the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), among other institutions of high prestige. Within EurASc, Prof. Quarteroni served as Officer of the Division of Computational and Information Sciences across two mandates: First mandate : March 2017 – March 2020 Second mandate : March 2020 – March 2023 (extended until March 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)Prof. Almut Arneth is Professor for Plant-Atmosphere Interactions and also Head of the Ecosystem-Atmosphere Exchanges Division at KITProf. Chuanyi Wang is a Distinguished Professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology (SUST), China, where he serves as Academic Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Director of the Shaanxi Province Innovation and Talent Introduction Base, and Director of the Xi’an International Joint Research Centre. Prior to joining SUST in 2017, he was a Distinguished Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), serving as Director of the Laboratory of Environmental Science and Technology at the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, and leading both the CAS International Creative Research Team and an Innovation Cross-Team. Prof. Wang earned his PhD from CAS with honours in 1998. He conducted postdoctoral research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hannover and Free University of Berlin, 1999–2000), and held research positions in the USA at Tufts University and the University of Missouri–Kansas City (2000–2010). He has led more than 30 national and international research projects, including several prestigious initiatives funded by NSFC and CAS. His research focuses on energy and environmental photocatalysis, environmental materials, waste recycling, and green low-carbon technologies. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles with more than 22,000 citations (H-index 85), holds 65 Chinese and US patents, and is the author of three monographs. He has delivered over 260 invited keynote or plenary talks worldwide. Prof. Wang is an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM). He has consistently ranked among the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” by Stanford University since 2021 (Top 100 in Physical Chemistry), and is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the CAS Hundred Talents Program “Excellent” award, the China Tianshan Prize, the Contribution Award of Overseas Chinese, Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate), and the Advanced Materials Laureate. He serves on several editorial and scientific advisory boards (e.g. Associate Editor for Environmental Chemistry Letters ), is Deputy Director General of the China Energy Society, and acts as Chairman of national and international conferences. He also reviews proposals and serves on panels for MOST (China) and the National Science and Technology Award of China. Prof. Chuanyi Wang currently serves as Officer of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of the European Academy of Sciences, for the term June 2025 – May 2028 , in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws.Prof. Curtarolo is a Materials Scientist interested in disordered systems. His research interests lie at the intersection of materials science, artificial intelligence, and autonomous discovery of new materials. His current research focuses on theory and discovery of disordered super-hard and ultra-high-temperature ceramics and machine learning approaches to phase stability of alloys. After graduating from MIT, he joined Duke University in 2003 where he is now Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Distinguished Professor. Stefano received many national/international awards and recognitions (e.g., ONR Yip, NSF Career, PECASE, IUPAP, Humboldt-Bessel, Weizmann, APS/MRS/IOP fellowship, Highly Cited 2021, 2022 and 2023). At Duke, he directs the Center for Extreme Materials, which is dedicated to research in ultra-high-temperature materials. The Center and the consortium have also organized several educational [aflow.org/aflow-school/] and outreach initiatives in accelerated materials design [aflow.org/seminars/]. Updated cv is available here https://materials.duke.edu/ Dr. Stefano Curtarolo Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Distinguished Professor Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Physics Director, Center for Extreme Materials Duke University, USA - http://materials.duke.edu – www.aflow.org Email: Stefano@duke.eduProf. Emmanuel Floratos is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist and mathematician, recognised for his influential contributions to fundamental physics and finite quantum mechanics. His pioneering research has helped advance the mathematical foundations of quantum theory and the interplay between physics and number theory. Throughout his career, Prof. Floratos has produced a body of work that bridges deep mathematical structures with conceptual developments in quantum field theory and theoretical high-energy physics. His research has been widely cited and continues to inspire ongoing developments in both physics and mathematics. Awarded the 2004 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics in recognition of his fundamental contributions to physics and groundbreaking research in finite quantum mechanics. Prof. Emmanuel Floratos has served as Member of the Presidium of the European Academy of Sciences across two mandates: March 2015 – February 2019 , March 2019 – February 2023 , extended until April 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws) .Prof. Georges Van Den Abbeele is a distinguished scholar of the humanities and social thought based in the United States, with an academic career across prestigious institutions including UC Davis, Northeastern University, UC Santa Cruz, and Brown University. His interdisciplinary research spans continental philosophy, literary and cultural theory, and political thought, with influential work on travel narratives, French theory, and the role of the humanities in contemporary society. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including the widely cited Travel as Metaphor , as well as translations and critical editions of major French theorists. Prof. Van Den Abbeele is also recognised for his leadership in higher education, having held several academic administrative roles promoting strategic development in the humanities and the integration of cross-disciplinary knowledge. Prof. Van Den Abbeele was awarded the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of travel, critical theory, and the understanding of cultural identity and global discourse in the modern world. Prof. Georges Van Den Abbeele has served as Officer of the Social Sciences and Humanities Division across three mandates: March 2016 – February 2019 , March 2019 – February 2022 , extended until April 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and December 2024 – November 2027 (current and final consecutive term, in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws).Prof. Hans Peter Blankholm is Professor of Archaeology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, a position he has held since 1994. He obtained his dr.phil. from the University of Århus, Denmark, in 1991. His research focuses on the comparative archaeology of hunter-fisher-gatherer societies in sub-Arctic and Arctic regions, with particular interest in foodways and subsistence strategies. In addition to thematic research, Prof. Blankholm has contributed to the development of analytical methods in archaeology, including multivariate statistics, spatial analysis, GIS, and artificial neural network-based predictive modelling. He has participated in several major research projects, including Taking the North into Possession. The Early Settlement of Northern Europe – Economy, Technology and Society . He is an active member of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP) and was a founding member and former chairman (2006–2012) of the Polar Archaeology Network (PAN). In 2005, he was recognised as one of the "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century" by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK. Within the European Academy of Sciences, Prof. Blankholm has served the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division as Officer for two consecutive mandates: 1st Mandate: March 2016 – February 2019 2nd Mandate: March 2019 – February 2022 , extended until 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .Prof. Luís Oliveira e Silva is Full Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is internationally recognised for his pioneering contributions to plasma physics, particularly in the fields of laser-plasma interactions, plasma-based particle acceleration, and astrophysical plasma modelling. He leads the GoLP (Group for Lasers and Plasmas) and the Extreme Plasma Physics team at IST, and has coordinated several major European research initiatives. His scientific leadership and excellence have been recognised through numerous distinctions, including ERC Advanced Grants, and his election as Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). 🏅 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics (2024) Awarded in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to plasma-based particle acceleration and high-intensity laser-plasma interactions. Prof. Luís Oliveira e Silva has served as Officer of the Physics Division since May 2025 , for the mandate May 1st, 2025 – April 30th, 2028 (current and first term, in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws).Prof. Michael Griebel is Professor of Numerical Simulation and Director of the Institute for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn, and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin, Germany. Born in Augsburg in 1960, he studied Computer Science at the Technische Universität München, where he obtained his Diplom in 1985, Dr. rer. nat. in 1989, and Habilitation in 1993. Prof. Griebel has held visiting professorships at leading institutions, including the University of California, San Diego, the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (UCLA), the University Paris VII Diderot, and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was also appointed International Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARCIF). His research focuses on the fast numerical solution of partial differential equations, multigrid and multilevel methods, high-dimensional problems, parallel computing, and numerical methods for data analysis and scientific computing, with applications in fluid dynamics (CFD), molecular dynamics (MD), and engineering sciences. Prof. Griebel has authored seven books and over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and he serves as Managing Editor of Numerische Mathematik . He is also a member of the editorial boards of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering and Texts in Computational Science and Engineering . Within the European Academy of Sciences, Prof. Griebel served as Officer of the Computational and Information Sciences Division : March 2020 – March 2023 , Extended until March 2024 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , in accordance with the Bylaws.Prof. Pavel Exner is Scientific Director of the Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to mathematical quantum theory, with particular focus on spectral and scattering properties of quantum systems, quantum waveguides, quantum graphs, and manifolds. His major research contributions include the analysis of geometrically induced effects in quantum waveguides and layers, singular Schrödinger operators, quantum graph vertex coupling approximations, Zeno dynamics, strongly singular Wannier-Stark systems, and Dirac operators with singular interactions. He has actively supervised many students and postdoctoral researchers in mathematical physics. Prof. Exner has played a significant role in the international mathematical community. He served as Secretary and President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (2006–2011), and as Vice-President (2005–2010) and President (2015–2018) of the European Mathematical Society. He was a founding member of the European Research Council (ERC) and served as its Vice-President (2011–2014). He has received several prestigious awards, including the JINR Prize (1985) and the Neuron Prize (2016). He is a member of Academia Europaea, a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and an honorary member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society. Prof. Pavel Exner has served as Officer of the Mathematics Division since March 2023 , for the mandate March 2023 – March 2026 (current and first term, in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws).Prof.Dr. Franz J. Giessibl holds the Chair for Quantum Nanoscience at University of Regensburg in Germany. He obtained his diploma in physics after studies at the Technical University of Munich and ETH Zürich. He was the PhD student of Nobel laureate Prof. Gerd Binnig with the IBM Physics Group Munich at the Ludwig-Maximilians University where he built the first atomic force microscope (AFM) for ultrahigh vacuum and low temperatures. He continued his work on AFM at Park Scientific Instruments, a Stanford spinoff, where he established AFM as a surface science tool by obtaining for the first time the atomically resolved Si(111)-(7x7) reconstruction published in Science 267, 68 in 1995. During a two year break from science as a management consultant with McKinsey&Company, he invented the qPlus sensor, a new core for AFM, in his home laboratory and returned to academia. The qPlus sensor enabled transformative works in science since and Giessibl has been awarded ten international science prizes for his work on AFM so far, including the Keithley award of APS, the Feynman Prize of Nanotechnology, the Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal and the NIMS award of Japan. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an International Fellow of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Art.Professor Armido Studer studied chemistry at the ETH in Zürich (Switzerland). He obtained his PhD from Prof. Dieter Seebach (1995) and did his postdoctoral studies in Pittsburgh (USA) under the guidance of Prof. Dennis Curran. He then initiated his independent research career at the ETH Zürich (1996). In 2000 he moved as an associate professor to the Philipps University of Marburg (Germany) and in 2004 he became full professor at the University of Münster (Germany). Prof. Studer is globally recognized as one of the leading advocates of modern organic free radical chemistry. Through his groundbreaking research, he has made significant contributions to the revival of free radical chemistry. His pioneering methods are increasingly employed in organic synthesis, evident from the extensive citations his work has garnered. Prof. Studer's original and systematic approaches to modern free radical chemistry have propelled remarkable advancements in this field.Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. His research has made key contributions to photonic signal processing and microwave photonics. He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has around 100 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Talks at international conferences. He has served on numerous technical and steering committees of international conferences. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB Medal for Outstanding Investigator in Telecommunications, awarded by the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica), a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.Professor Sir Cato T. Laurencin is University Professor and Chief Executive Officer of the Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Trained as a chemical engineer, physician and biomedical engineer, he holds a B.S.E. from Princeton University, a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. His academic appointments span chemical and biomolecular engineering, materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and orthopaedic surgery. Professor Laurencin is the founder of the field of Regenerative Engineering , defined as the convergence of advanced materials science, stem cell science, physics, developmental biology and clinical translation. He has authored over 850 scientific publications, edited numerous books, holds more than 60 patents, and has translated multiple materials-based technologies into clinical applications. He is a member of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, as well as numerous international academies, and is the recipient of major international distinctions, including the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation. 🏅 Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (2025) Awarded in recognition of Prof. Sir Cato Laurencin’s pioneering contributions to materials science and biomedical engineering , particularly for the development of transformative technologies for musculoskeletal repair and regeneration. His work spans fundamental polymeric materials science through to clinical translation, resulting in innovative therapies and products that have significantly improved human health. As the founder of the field of Regenerative Engineering , Prof. Laurencin has established a new interdisciplinary paradigm uniting advanced materials science, stem cell science, biology, physics, and clinical application for the regeneration of complex tissues and organs. His exceptional scientific leadership and impact across science, engineering, and medicine make him a most deserving recipient of the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science.Professor Surya Prakash was born in 1953 in BangaloreRichard Kaner received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 working with Prof. Alan MacDiarmid (Nobel Laureate 2000, deceased). After postdoctoral research at Berkeley, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987, earned tenure in 1991, became a full professor in 1993, a Distinguished Professor in 2012 and was appointed to the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation in 2017. He has published over 475 papers in top peer reviewed journals and holds 81 U.S. patents. According to the most recent Clarivate Analytics/Thomson-Reuters rankings, he is among the world’s most highly cited authors. Professor Kaner has received awards from the Dreyfus, Fulbright, Guggenheim, Packard and Sloan Foundations along with the Materials Research Society Medal, the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize, the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society’s Buck-Whitney Research Award, Tolman Medal, Award in the Chemistry of Materials and the Award in Applied Polymer Science for his work on refractory materials including new synthetic routes to ceramics, intercalation compounds, superhard metals, graphene and conducting polymers. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Physical Society (APS), the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Euro-Acad), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).RussiaSciencesScientia ProfessorScotland (1980) and received a Masters degree in Chemistry with Advanced Chemistry from the University of St Andrews (2002)Simon R. Cherry, Ph.D. received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics with Astronomy from University College London in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London in 1989. In 1993, he became a faculty member in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA. Simon joined UC Davis in 2001 and is currently Distinguished Research Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology. Simon’s research interests center around biomedical imaging. His major contributions have been in developing systems for positron emission tomography, for example as co-leader of the EXPLORER consortium which developed the world’s first total-body PET scanner. He also has contributed to detector technology innovations for PET, conducted early biomedical studies using Cerenkov luminescence, and developed the first proof-of-concept hybrid PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) systems. Simon is an elected fellow of six professional societies and a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors. He has received several international awards including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Cassen Prize in 2022. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology from 2011-2020. Simon is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, review articles and book chapters in the field of biomedical imaging. He is also lead author of the widely-used textbook “Physics in Nuclear Medicine”.Social Sciences and HumanitiesSocial Sciences and Humanities DivisionSoraya de Chadarevian is Professor for History of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her main area of interest is the history of the biomedical sciences in the twenty-first century up to the present. She has a background in biology and philosophy and among others has held fellowships at the Walther Rathenau Program and at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, at La Villette and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, at Churchill College Cambridge and at the Institute for Advances Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, she was a senior research associate and affiliated lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge (1991-2006). She is interested in the material and visual practices of the biomedical sciences and the place of these sciences in the broader culture as well as in historiographical issues. She has worked extensively on the history of molecular biology and the complex cultural processes that contributed to the development of the new science after World War II. Her publications on this topic include the monograph Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (Cambridge 2002, reprinted 2003, paperback 2011), the exhibition catalogue Representations of the Double Helix (Whipple Museum 2002), the co-edited volume Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Strategies and Alliances, 1910s-1970s (Harwood 1998) and numerous articles and book chapters. Other publications include the co-edited volume Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Stanford 2004), several guest-edited special issues, including more recently the co-edited issue Histories of Data and the Database , Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (Dec 2018) as well as numerous articles. Her last book Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (Chicago 2020) is a history of chromosomes, visual evidence and the study of human heredity in the second half of the twentieth century (Chicago 2020). Her current research is on radioactive fallout and the first global pollutant. She is Vice-President, President Elect of the History of Science Society (2024-2027). Institutional website: https://history.ucla.edu/person/soraya-de-chadarevian/ 🏅 Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities (2025) Awarded in recognition of Prof. Soraya de Chadarevian’s outstanding contributions to the history and philosophy of science , particularly for her seminal scholarship on the life sciences and their epistemic, cultural and institutional foundations. Her work is distinguished by its exceptional breadth, depth and interdisciplinary reach, integrating historical, philosophical and contextual perspectives to advance a nuanced understanding of modern biology. Beyond her scholarly achievements, Prof. de Chadarevian has demonstrated remarkable leadership and service to the field, fostering dialogue between scientists and historians of science and contributing extensively to academic governance, publishing, and public engagement. She is a most deserving recipient of the Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities.Soroosh Sorooshian, PhD., NAE is a Distinguished Professor of the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science Departments and Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing (CHRS) at the University of California Irvine since 2003. His area of expertise includes the interface of global hydrologic cycle, and climate system. He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Fellow: American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Among his other honors: Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Montpellier, 2023, Honorary Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2022, Hydrological Sciences Medalist, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2021, Lifetime Achievement Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society 2018. Recipient, 2017 Ven Te Chow Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2013 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Robert E. Horton Medal, 2010 4th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Resources Management & Protection, 2005 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the 2012 Eagleson lectureship, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). UCI Faculty Profile: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5082 He is the current Chair of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and has served as the Present and Past Member and Chair of over 30 other advisory and review committees and boards for NASA, NOAA, DOE, EPA, NSF, National Labs, UNESCO, WMO, professional societies and National Research Council (NRC).Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nguyen received her B.S. (1997), M.S. (1998), and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2001-2004, she was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and devices. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris on molecular electronics. She joined the faculty of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCSB in 2004. Her research interests are doping and charge transport in organic semiconductors, bioelectronics, and device physics of organic solar cells, ratchets, transistors, and photodetectors. She is co-authored over 310 publications and 3 book chapters that received over 38,000 citations (H-index: 102) and gave over 335 plenary/keynote/invited talks at national and international conferences, universities, and companies. Recognition for her research includes 2005 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, 2009 Alfred Sloan Research Fellows, 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellows, 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019 Hall of Fame - Advanced Materials, 2019 Beaufort Visiting Scholar, St John’s College, Cambridge University, 2015-2019 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics, 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021 & 2022 Women in Materials Science by Advanced Materials, 2023 Wilhelm Exner Medal from Austria, 2023 Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, 2023 de Gennes Prize in Materials Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023 Elected Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and 2024 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.USAUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States of AmericaUniversity of Ljubljana and founder of the consulting company EMRI d.o.o. He has developed an innovative theoretical-experimental approachVolker Mehrmann received a Diplomain mathematics in 1979, his Ph.D. in 1982 and his habilitation in 1987 from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He spent research years at Kent State University 1979-1980, University of Wisconsin 1984-1985, IBM Research Center Heidelberg 1988-1989. After spending two years 1990-1992 as visiting full professor at the RWTH Aachen he was a full professor at TU Chemnitz from 1993 to 2000. Since then he is a full professor at TU Berlin. His research interests are in the areas of numerical mathematics/scientific computing, applied and numerical linear algebra, control theory as well as differential algebraic equations.Zoran Kapelan is Professor of Urban Water Infrastructure in the Department of Water Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands where he is leading a research group working on different aspects of urban water systems. Prior to joining TU Delft he was an Academic Lead of the Water and Environment group at the University of Exeter in the UK. And before joining academia he worked as a consultant in the water industry for 10 years. Prof. Kapelan is an International Water Association (IWA) Fellow with over 30 years of experience in water engineering. His research interests and expertise are centred on the development of novel engineering and informatics / artificial intelligence-based methodologies addressing a wide range of issues in urban water management (both water and wastewater systems). He is/was the principal/co-investigator on more than 50 EU, UK, NL and industry funded projects with over €11 million personal funding received. He pioneered several award-winning technologies that are used in engineering practice. Prof Kapelan has honorary professorial positions at two other universities (Exeter and Belgrade). He is a member of External Science Advisory Council of KWR in the Netherlands. He is also a member of several specialist groups within major professional water engineering organisations such as IWA and EWRI. He served as a member of over 60 scientific committees at major water conferences and has given over 80 invited talks around the world including 25 keynotes. As part of his academic work he (co)supervise(d) 59 PhD students and 28 postdocs since 2005 and was involved in over 60 PhD committees in 17 countries. Prof. Kapelan has over 500 publications, including over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers with an H-index of 65 and over 16,000 citations (Google Scholar, Sep 2024). He is serving as an Editor for the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE) and Associate Editor for the Water Resources Research (AGU).chedue to complications and pneumonia induced by COVID19. Professor Eylon was an internationally recognized materials engineer whose distinguished service included original academic work and teaching as well as consulting for the aerospace industry.he returned as Associate Professor to the Universitymaththe Academia Europaea (London)the creator of a strong school working on partial differential equations. He is in particular well-known for the Ahlfors-Bers-Bojarski Theorem concerning the solutions of the Beltrami equation. He combined his scientific work with organizational activities. In the years 1970-1981 he was the director of the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw. He created the Research and Conference Center in Będlewo. For his service to the Polish science he was awarded the Golden Cross of Meritwhere she is actually serving as the Vice-Rector for Research Strategies and as Delegate Director and Scientific Coordinator of the National Council of Research Mainz🏅 2019 Blaise Pascal Medallist in Materials Science🏅 Luigi Ambrosio is Associate Research Director of the Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council, Naples, Italy. Qualified Full Professor in Bioengineering and in Materials Science and Technology. He received the doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering (1982) from University of Naples "Federico II'. Associate Researcher at Department of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy. (1983-1985). Visiting Scientist at Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, Polymer Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. (1985-1986). Adjunct Professor at Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA (1997-2003). Appointed Professor of Biomaterials, University of Naples “Federico II”. (1997-2007). Director of Institute of Composites and Biomedical Materials, National Research Council, Naples, Italy (2008-2012). Acting Director of Molecular Design Department, National Research Council, Rome, Italy (2011-2012). Director of Chemical Sciences & Materials Technology Department, National Research Council, Rome, Italy (2011-2017). Director of Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council, Naples, Italy (Dec. 2018- Aug.2022). Vice-President of the Societa' Italiana Biomateriali (SIB) (2005 – 2012). President of the European Society of Biomaterials (2007-2013), Past President (2013-2017), Honorary Member (since 2018). Member of the European Platform on Nanomedicine contributing to the definition of research strategy in regenerative medicine (2007 – 2012) Member of the High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies, European Commission (2010-2015). He is recipient of the "G. Winter Award" of the European Society for Biomaterials for the high worldwide contribution to Biomaterials Science (September 2015). Co-Chair of the Working group on “Advanced Materials, Nanomaterials and Biophysics”, Italy-USA Cooperation on Science and Technology (since 2014). He has been nominated Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (since 2001), Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (since 2004), Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biomedical Engineering & Science (since 2018) and Fellow Member of the European Academy of Science (since 2019). Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine (since 2017). Research interests include design and characterisation of polymers and composites for medical applications and tissue engineering, structural properties of natural tissue, properties and processing of polymers and composites and nanostructures, hydrogels and biodegradable polymers, additive technologies. Publications include over 380 papers on international scientific journals and book (>23000 citations, h-index >86), 27 patents, over 190 invited lectures and over 500 presentations at international and national conferences.🏅EURASC Blaise Pascal Medal for Physics in 2018 , is internationally renowned for his pioneering contributions to statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and stochastic processes. His groundbreaking work on Stochastic Resonance , Brownian motors , and relativistic and quantum thermodynamics has profoundly influenced multiple scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. --- Theoretical physics – Statistical Physics: Classical and Quantum Dissipative quantum systems, physical biology, molecular electronics, Stochastic phenomena (Stochastic Resonance, Brownian motors, Rate theory), Nonlinear dynamics, Control of quantum transport (Floquet engineering), Classical and Quantum Thermodynamics, Quantum information processing, Relativistic Brownian motion and Relativistic Thermodynamics University of Augsburg, Universität Augsburg physik.uni-augsburg.de Areas of Research: Statistical Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Stochastic processes, Quantum-Thermodynamics, Biophysics, Brownian motion, Brownian motors, Relavistic Thermodynamics🏆 2022 Leonardo da Vinci Award In recognition for her Outstanding Lifelong Achievement. Dr. Cazenave is Director for Earth Sciences at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), in Bern, Switzerland, since 2013. Previously, she was a star scientist of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, in Toulouse, France, where she now is emeritus scientist. She is a world authority on anthropogenic sea level changes. Dr. Cazenave is a leading specialist of space research applied to Earth physics. As already mentioned, she is a world authority on sea level change and its relation with climate, especially using satellite remote sensing (hydrology from space). She is an expert of marine geophysics, mainly using satellite altimetry. She was a pioneer of satellite geodesy and its applications, including gravity, tides, precise positioning, global mass redistributions among oceans, atmosphere and land. Dr. Cazenave’s present research addresses different aspects of sea level changes: improvement of satellite measurements of sea level and quantification of uncertainties, estimation of the causes of sea level variations from global to local scales, and study of sea level impacts in coastal zones. Over the past decade, within the context of the Climate Change Initiative Programme of the European Space Agency, she has led a project to improve the ~30 year-long altimetry-based sea level record through a complete reprocessing of altimetry data from nine different space missions, developing new algorithms, improved geophysical corrections, etc. This huge undertaking, which involved several European partners, produced a new sea level dataset that is now available to the international community. She also initiated new research to estimate sea level changes in coastal zones as classical nadir altimetry does not work within 10-20 km of the coast due to parasitic reflections from land. This is critical research because, until recently, it was not known whether sea level at the coast rises at the same rate as in the open ocean. Novel, unexpected results obtained by Dr. Cazenave and her group showed that, along a large portion of the world coastal zones, coastal sea level trends at distances < 2-3 km from the shoreline are similar to those in the nearby open ocean. In few instances only, higher or lower rates are observed at the coast compared to offshore. This is key information for decision-making and adaptation. Accordingly, it is most befitting for the European Academy of Sciences to grant the 2022 Leonardo da Vinci Award to Prof. Anny Cazenave.FilterWitold (†) GutkowskiWitold BrostowWolfgang SigmundXiao Cheng ZengXiao-Yu YangXiaobo QuXiaoyuan ChenXile HuXinliang FengXiufeng HanXudong ZhaoXun SunYana VaynzofYang TongYang YangYannick ChampionYannis PhillisYaping LiYarub Al-DouriYilong BaiYiu-Wing MaiYou-Sheng (†) HeYu-Zhong WangYuan-Tseh LeeYuanzheng YueYujie XiongYuntian ZhuYurii I. ShokinYurii LozovikYury GogotsiYves AgidYves BrechetYves GeertsYvon MadayZbigniew I. WoznickiZeev GrossZhengyi FuZhibing ZhangZhong Lin WangZhongchang WangZhores I. (†) AlferovZoran KapelanZuowei ShenZvi M. Kedem« Previous 1 … 20 21 22
